Mario Zaragoza

Acting

Mario Zaragoza

Born 1960-02-05 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Mario Zaragoza is a steadily working character actor within the Mexican film industry. He has appeared in a variety of Mexican films and television programs from 1998 to the present. He is most famous for his extended cameo as a corrupt police officer who gets tortured by Denzel Washington in El fuego de la venganza (2004).

Acting credits

Man on Fire poster
7.5

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Man on Fire

2004

Get the Gringo poster
6.6

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Get the Gringo

2012

The Seductress poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

The Seductress

2020

Potosí poster
5.1

Potosi, a rural town in Latin America, is the crossfire of the ravaging that has devastated the north of the country. An accident along a deserted road connects three stories, an 82 year old goat herder that has not shot his gun in 40 years, a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and a humble peasant living on guard to protect his family from the country’s war against organized crime.

Potosí

2013

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad poster
NR

An special and heroic Representation of Independence, the Past Narrated in “Gritos de Muerte y Libertad,” which examines the roles of independence heroes in the series’ narrative and in Mexican historiography. Extended and more detailed pilot that expands the show.

Gritos D Muerte y Libertad

2010

As Good as Dead poster
6.1

An ex-cop in self-imposed witness protection in Mexico becomes a target when a fight video of his apprentice goes viral.

As Good as Dead

2022

I Want to Be poster
7.5

The short drama film follows the daily life of the Juan and Jorge, two brothers living on the streets of Mexico City. It won an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Live Action Short Film.

I Want to Be

2000

Ladies Mafia poster
2.9

Tori, a beautiful young woman, accidentally ends up with a criminal's merchandise and is accused of the death of a member of a Colombian cartel: “El Jefe.” Desperate Tori asks for help from her friends Camila and Priz. The three decide to sell the product to a well-known local cartel to solve their problems and request the help of "Shakira", a hitwoman who knows the market, but they do not know that the buyer with whom they are doing business is the original owner of the merchandise.

Ladies Mafia

2011

Tear This Heart Out poster
7.9

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

Tear This Heart Out

2008

Marcelo poster
3.7

Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a porn star, but Mrs. Martha, who still treats her son Marcelo like a kid, will never permit such a relationship to flourish. Emotionally disturbed, she will try to protect the only thing she's got left in the world: her son.

Marcelo

2012

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas poster
7.2

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

2012

Tratantes de blancas III poster
2.0

A policeman is fighting against the crimes of the region, and he will have to face the bureaucracy, the corruption of his corporation as well as his family to try to save his daughter.

Tratantes de blancas III

2017

Nuestro Juramento poster
NR

Susana Carvente, a retired poet, is haunted by the ghost of her husband. On her sixtieth birthday, Susana reunites with Humberto, a bolero master she remembers from her youth, and a repressed attraction begins to resurface. Meanwhile, Susana stars in an interview where she relives dark moments from her marriage. At a crossroads, Susana must choose between what she believes is right, her past, or her freedom.

Nuestro Juramento

2024

From Prada to Nada poster
5.4

Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

From Prada to Nada

2011

The Zone poster
6.3

Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out within the neighborhood's borders.

The Zone

2007

Ingrid poster
NR

One day on the life of a young girl living in Guadalajara, a city plagued by a sensation of unsafety at all time.

Ingrid

2022

12 segundos poster
4.3

After her boss goes missing, Selma travels to a mountainous region called “La Frontera” to investigate his disappearance. In this primitive and dangerous locale, she will find a complex web of deception, betrayal, and murder, not to mention one very unfriendly dog.

12 segundos

2013

Grandes Hits poster
NR

Three destinies collide in a ferocious underworld: a former porn actor turned hitman seeking to retire, a hermit with a lupine delusion thirsting for revenge, and a young gigolo torn between crime and love. Everything erupts in black humor and desire.

Grandes Hits

2025

Perdidas poster
NR

Andrea constantly complains to her husband about their lack of money, and fed up with the situation, she cheats on him with Dante, a man who takes advantage of everyone to make a profit. As time goes by, Andrea realizes that she hasn't achieved what she wants with Dante either and begins looking for other ways to get easy money.

Perdidas

2025

A Wonderful World poster
7.7

A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.

A Wonderful World

2006

Malaventura poster
6.3

On the way to the party of the year, four friends decide to play an old school prank that lands them in jail and unleashes a chain of events that will unfold throughout the course of one day.

Malaventura

2015

Una pequeña confusión poster
7.5

Lola and Cuau, a progressive middle-class pair, and Iñigo and Majo, a young conservative, well-heeled duo, turn to artificial insemination as a last resort to have children. In a madcap twist based on actual events, a mix-up at the clinic results in each mom-to-be carrying the other one's baby.

Una pequeña confusión

2024

Days of Grace poster
6.6

Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.

Days of Grace

2012

Infierno Grande poster
NR

Based on a real event, where the municipal president, in order to clean the image of his people before a politician's visit, "throws" a group of mentally ill people into the desert.

Infierno Grande

2006